A Toddler Taught me the Truth about Empathy.

Brooke Murphey
6 min readApr 4, 2019

A 2 year old taught me more about empathy than Brene Brown ever has.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

The true definition of being empathetic is not actually this magical ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. That may be the universal definition, the one we’re trying to teach ourselves to believe but a 2 year old taught me the true definition of empathy.

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Brooke Murphey

Writer, Pyrography Artist, Photographer - Creative Barbie